...getting other news that there was a person
who had witnessed this online. They tried...
about a suspect who had committed a horrific murder
and then had flown to Paris.
We mobilised the entire taskforce of 30 to 40 officers
to go to Roissy, Charles de Gaulle Airport.
We were told he was wearing a wig,
a Mickey Mouse T-shirt.
So, we check the CCTV footage.
Bingo!
He heads out to the taxi pickup area.
He doesn't speak to anyone, and he acts pretty normal.
He goes up to a taxi,
puts his luggage in, and gets into the car.
So, we search for and identify the taxi company
who quickly give us the name of the driver of this taxi.
And he says, "Yes, I dropped off this person at a hotel called Novotel."
We don't waste any time and rush to the hotel.
As soon as I arrive with my team, we make our way straight to reception,
and we asked them if they had a reservation
in the name of Luka Magnotta.
And immediately after checking, they discover Magnotta has a reservation.
He reserved in the name of Luka Rocco Magnotta
for one night.
But, unfortunately,
he never slept at the hotel.
At this point, we don't know where he is.
He could be anywhere. In Paris, around Paris.
He could have left the city already.
So, we are back to square one.
The Canadian police gave us a crucial piece of information,
that one of Luka Rocco Magnotta's credit cards
was used for a withdrawal at an ATM located in Place de Clichy.
So we check through the CCTV footage.
And that's important for us
as it confirms he's still in Paris.
You could definitely assume that Luka Magnotta would like this area.
It attracts a lot of prostitutes.
So potentially, yes, the people he might meet...
could end up being his victims.
At that time, I ordered my team to go to every hotel
in the area, one by one.
After four or five hours of checking hotels...
the search comes to nothing.
everybody goes home.
Once we'd exhausted all lines of investigation for the day,
everyone went home.
The following morning,
I turn on the TV, and I come across the 24-hour news channels...
Luka Rocco Magnotta, a 29-year-old Canadian,
currently the target of an international arrest warrant.
He is at the center of a sordid murder that took place in Montreal last week.
He is, nevertheless, now in France.
For me personally, I don't think that's a good thing.
We're used to working in the shadows at the Fugitive Task Force
because our cases aren't usually covered by the media.
But in fact, it's the only thing
the 24-hour news channels are talking about.
A troubled personality with many faces.
He almost looks like any tourist.
He has mentioned he has a "taste for blood."
This publicity leads to many people coming forward,
and so we receive an enormous number of sightings.
In every area of Paris, this man is trying to avoid the police.
He has been spotted in several bars in the capital.
But it's also a curse
because we've got to authenticate every single one.
As of now, the leads are not very productive,
but police will continue the search
to find the man they are already calling the "Butcher of Montreal."
...the Canadian,
already nicknamed the "Butcher of Montreal."
Several leads are being investigated by the police.
there was one that leaped out.
This witness was called Jean-Christophe.
And he explains that someone came to his home by the name of Luke.
And he told him that he had been staying at the Novotel Hotel.
This clue had never been disclosed to the media,
so we immediately call him in for questioning.
of how he got into contact with you?
The first written contact we had
was through the Internet site PlanetRomeo.
It's a website to meet people.
I received a text message, if I remember correctly.
It said, "It's Luke. I'm in Paris. Can we meet?"
Tell us about his demeanor when he stayed at your place.
He walked in,
was courteous, polite.
He seemed a little nervous.
And then what happened?
Nothing.
What do you mean?
I went to sleep.
And him?
He slept on the sofa.
- Any sexual relations? - No.
- Any physical contact between you two? - No.
It's surprising that he spends the night at Jean-Christophe's
two days after committing his violent act,
and yet he doesn't say that Magnotta is in a complete frenzy
or that he is acting strangely.
He stayed until the next morning.
But when I found that he was a wanted man,
I thought, "Can this really be him?"
I had two pieces of information that he had given me.
The hotel where he stayed,
and the second one was the phone number he used.
I imagine that he got that phone in France.
Why do you think that he got it in France?
Because +06 is a French number.
The most important thing that he gave us
was the phone number that Magnotta had used to contact him.
This was more than we'd hoped for.
We were able to find out where the phone had been bought.
In a store near Port de Bagnolet.
So, we checked every hotel around the Porte de Bagnolet station.
This is the Soumman Hotel.
It's a hotel better suited to someone who wants to hide out.
And the manager of the hotel, when we show him the photo,
he says, "Yes, that rings a bell.
He booked the room for eight or nine nights, which he paid for in cash.
It's possible he's even here now."
My team progresses,
keeping in mind that Magnotta could be behind the door.
They enter the room.
In the bedroom, we find the T-shirt he was wearing when he first arrived.
Unfortunately, Magnotta isn't there.
And in the toilet, we found a student ID card.
He's clearly trying to erase the Magnotta identity.
He was gone.
We were not far behind him. We were really not very far behind him.
But then we discover
that, in fact, the booking was not made in the name of Luka Rocco Magnotta,
but in the name of Kirk Tramell.
At this point, I feel like he's moved on to the next phase,
and he has, in fact, decided to truly go on the run
by using a new identity.
He could be anywhere.
It was a Monday.
The weather was nice.
Nice and fresh.
I came to work at the Internet café here in Neukölln, Berlin.
I read the newspapers, as usual.
I love reading the news. It's an obsession of mine.
Then I read a report about a man that chopped up his lover,
cut his head off,
and then mailed the body parts to the Canadian government.
I couldn't believe a person could be so brutal.
What kind of character can do that?
And then suddenly, he's standing in front of me.
I was shocked,
but he was very polite, with a French accent,
and he looked totally normal.
Like the guy next door.
So he said, "Sir, Internet?"
And I said, "Okay, come with me."
The Internet booths are up here.
Thirty-six Internet booths. Please follow me, and I will show you.
And here at number 25,
is where he was sat.
He sat with his back turned to me
so that I could watch him and see what he was doing.
I still wasn't sure if it was actually him.
He doesn't look like a murderer.
So I went upstairs to number 25.
So I grabbed this trashcan as if I were cleaning up.
I picked up an ashtray, but one eye was always on him.
I wanted to check exactly what he was doing on the Internet.
I saw that he had gone onto the Interpol site.
He was looking at his own mug shot.
It was clear to me he was the one.